Weeks after he won the GOP nomination last year, top members of President Trump’s team reportedly met with a Russian lawyer who has ties to the Kremlin.

The New York Times report — which cites interviews with sources as well as confidential government records — says the June 9, 2016 meeting at Trump Tower was set up by the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.

Present were Trump Jr., campaign chairman Paul J. Manafort, and Trump’s son-in-law and now top aide, Jared Kushner. The report, according to the newspaper, was confirmed by representatives of Donald Jr. and Kushner.

It quoted Donald Jr. as saying the meeting was primarily about an adoption program.

In his statement, Donald told the Times: “It was a short introductory meeting. I asked Jared and Paul to stop by. We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow up.”

The Times identified the lawyer as Natalia Veselnitskaya who is known for fighting a US law that blacklists Russian human rights abusers.